To be quite honest , ALL the superb engenearing and speed just dont hold water if you cant get the periphials working. I ended up resorting to the ESP Drivers on that one , and apps are a bitt dogish on a P166 which is why I use linux on them. I would dump suse on that one machine for a distro that realy suports the wide caraige printer and the custome size paper that I nned to use. Its not pleasing to have salt rubbed into the wound. I will give suse pionts in that they at least supplied enough BASIC info so I (as a printer newbie) was able after a few hours resurch find I was over my head as far as getting a working solution. Turns out the the grant tayler printing system and she STP driver (Hello Suse wheres the stp driver) As I recall , the ESP drivers use cups as well. I am also realy disapionted in there new pricing structure as well as the "limited" tech suport that comes with it. I will give them pionts for extending it with the pro version. I shelled out for it , as I have four boxes and its just easier to use a set of cds to keep them up to date ,as I dont have any high speed acsess. I have also notieced the newer trend that realy disturbs me. That peaple are starting to jump ship to other distros. I have not seen so meny threads and post there have been since 7.0 was put up. I happen to have four boxes , and realy like yast for the system admin stuff , as its a real time saver. Yast2 is evolving , but way too slow for my likes , although it did set it nup for 8 by 11 paper. I still find my selh going back to yast to clean things up and keep the boxes running. Mandrake cost pretty much the same as suse last time I checked , Debian look better and is rock solid as well , but I think I two will wait it out for 7.1 and see how it looks. You are right in that they have decided to become some what M$ like in trying to ever thing for every one , instead of focusing on a particular group. They have taken there fucus off of user needs and shifted it to the "corparate" custoimer who has the bucks to spend on a big budget tech contract , at the expense of us smaller guys. ie lilo and the 1024 cyclender limit. They should be realy focusing on user needs ie MORE hardware suport ect... At 10:56 PM 1/8/2001 -0600, Gary wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:56:22PM +0000 or thereabouts, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
This issue in regards to printer problems with an epson 1160 printer realy pissed me off , and realy shows one of the mian weaknesses in linux and distros in genereral. The hardware suport for printers and newer hardware
Hi Samy, I noticed that another distro (Mandrake) has now standardized on CUPS to handle their printer stuff in Linux. I have seen this being used and it works well with many different printers. I think that SuSE could have offered it in this newest distro version as well.
I think that SuSE is superbly engineered and extremely fast, as compared to most distros. What I feel is lacking is that when a new version comes out, its seems to be still behind in the latest technology as compared with the other distros. For example, others have put in KDE2 as standard default in their distro, others have had the LILO without the 1024 cylinder limitation out long before SuSE, others have had CUPS out now in the distro, etc. I bring this up in a constructive manner to express what competition is doing in their latest distros.
I think it is starting to show, too, at least here on this list. Think about it, if you have been following this list for a while (year or so). The traffic volume seems to definitely dropped, and it seems like
I have noticed this too. Not sure about the timing though.
-- Best regards, Gary
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